Matthew Poole and continuators on Isaiah 48:8

8. Yea thou heardest not, yea thou knewest not , yea from that time that thine ear was not opened : for I knew that thou wouldest deal very treacherously , and wast called a transgressor from the womb.

The same thing is repeated again and again, because this was so illustrious a proof of the infinite power and providence of the God of Israel, and so clear and full a discovery of the vanity of Idols.

Heb. Yea from then (of which phrase see the foregoing verse) thine ear was not opened, i. e. thou didst not hear, to wit, from me: I did not reveal these things unto thee: for so this Phrase of opening the ear is understood, 1 Sam. 9. 15. 2 Sam. 7. 27.

I knew all these cautions were necessary to cure thine infidelity and Apostacy.

To wit, justly and truly: Or, thou wast indeed such a person, to be called put for to be as we have oft noted.